QID Spotlight: Enhanced Oracle Java Discovery

Update December 15, 2020: This blog is updated with the FAQ section for customers to get more insight into QID details. Original Post: Securing Java instances has become critical for organizations because Javas wide use as an open-source component in applications has made it a captivating target...

Solorigate/Sunburst : Theft of Cybersecurity Tools | FireEye Breach

Update Jan 5, 2021: New patching section with two new dashboard widgets showing the number of missing FireEye-related patches in your environment and the number of assets in your environment missing one of those patches. Update Dec 23, 2020: Added a new section on compensating controls. Update De...

Qualys Research Nominated for Pwnie Awards 2020

The Qualys Security Advisory team has been nominated for five Pwnie Awards this year in three different categories. In addition to nominations for Best Privilege Escalation Bug and Best Server-Side Bug 3 nominations, we are proud to be nominated for Epic Achievement. The Pwnie Awards are an annua...

Securing Containers in Google Cloud Artifact Registry with Qualys

Container software supply chain is an area of concern for security teams in large and small enterprises because developers often make use of container images from a variety of public repositories. A single insecure container image can be instantiated several times and lead to a wide, diffused...

EDR Solutions Require Comprehensive Telemetry to Fend Off Multi-Vector Attacks

Endpoint devices are under increasingly aggressive and sophisticated attacks, so protecting them effectively from cyber criminals has become a thorny and vexing challenge as the threat landscape expands. It doesn’t help that endpoint protection today fluctuates between two strategies that are...

Dive Deep into VMDR

Qualys devoted the second day of the QSC USA 2020 virtual conference entirely to vulnerability management, detection and response VMDR, a critical area for the security and compliance of hybrid cloud IT environments. Mehul Revankar, VP of Product Management and Engineering for VMDR at Qualys, set...

The Evolution of the Qualys Cloud Platform

The global pandemic has upended everything, and in the cyber security world in particular it has highlighted the need for organizations to have a cloud-based security and compliance platform, Qualys President and Chief Product Officer Sumedh Thakar said during his keynote Monday at the virtual QS...

Building an Open Cloud Platform

Qualys Chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot kicked off QSC USA 2020, the company’s 20th annual user conference, with an assessment of current security challenges, and a clear call to action on how to successfully overcome them. “Today security is front and center, and as we move to the cloud, we mus...

Qualys Policy Compliance Plugin for Jenkins Now Available

Various factors may introduce vulnerabilities in a product during its lifecycle, resulting in a drift from the required compliance status. Hence, it is of utmost importance that security is baked into the product at every stage of development and possibilities of security gaps are ruled out. CI/C...

Auto-Discover and Secure Middleware Instances in Your Environment

Enterprise middleware plays a critical role in bringing together many moving parts within an organization, ensuring efficient collaboration, seamless integration and interoperability. A systematic evaluation of middleware architectures is important to thoroughly assess the overall security and...

Microsoft Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-16898) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

On October 13, 2020, Microsoft fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows TCP/IP stack for handling ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets. While Microsoft ranks this vulnerability as “Exploitation More Likely,” we may see a proof-of-concept released soon. The security issue...

Discover A10 Networks Advanced Core OS Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR

The Qualys vulnerability signatures team has released a new series of signatures detections for A10 Networks ACOS Advanced Core Operating System, allowing security teams to identify A10 hosts and detect their vulnerabilities. A10 Advanced Core Operating System with true Scalable Symmetrical...

Instrument VMware Virtual Machines for Security and Compliance

How do you ensure Qualys is managing the security and compliance of all your VMware workloads? First, you need to have Qualys Cloud Agent installed and running on all of your VMware virtual machines. While VMware vCenter knows the exact inventory of your virtual machines at all times, it doesn’t...

Detecting HTTP Request Smuggling with Qualys WAS

HTTP Request Smuggling HRS is a web application vulnerability that enables an attacker to craft a single request that hides a second request within the body of the first request. HRS enables the following types of attack: Web cache poisoning Web cache deception Session hijacking Cross-site...

PAN-OS Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2020-2040) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

On Sept 9, 2020, Palo Alto Networks published nine security bulletins addressing vulnerabilities in PAN-OS operating system versions 8.0 or later. One of the nine CVEs released, CVE-2020-2040, received a critical severity rating score of 9.8 based on the CVSS v3 Scoring system. PAN-OS devices are...

Vulnerability Detection Pipeline (Beta)

Update October 22, 2020: The Vulnerability Detection Pipeline beta has been updated to include detections of all severities. It now gives visibility into upcoming and recently published detections with severity 3, 2 and 1 in addition to severity 5 and 4. The pipeline also supports a URL parameter...

Microsoft Netlogon Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472 – Zerologon) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

Update October 1, 2020: Microsoft has added step-by-step Zerologon patching instructions because the original instructions "proved confusing to users and may have caused issues with other business operations." Update October 1, 2020: Qualys released new QID 91680 to add a remote unauthenticated...

Discover Gentoo Linux Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR

The Qualys vulnerability signatures team has released a new series of signatures detections for Gentoo Linux, allowing security teams to identify Gentoo Linux hosts and detect their vulnerabilities. Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. It is a fr...

Detect FritzFrog and Other Malware Infections with Inventory Data

Recently, Guardicore researchers discovered a new type of malware called “FritzFrog,” which targets multiple industry verticals, including government, finance, and healthcare. It employs brute-forcing SSH credentials as an initial attack vector, uses a proprietary P2P protocol to efficiently...

Discover EulerOS Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR

The Qualys vulnerability signatures team has released a new series of signatures detections for EulerOS, allowing security teams to identify EulerOS hosts and detect their vulnerabilities. EulerOS is a Linux distribution developed by Huawei Technologies and widely adopted by customers in Asia,...